tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:/discussions/suggestions/2789-what-is-the-advantage-of-icloud-sync-over-wifiThe Mental Faculty: Discussion 2017-08-13T19:03:57Ztag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/277194792013-07-11T08:49:20Z2013-07-11T08:49:21ZWhat is the advantage of iCloud sync over wifi<div><p>Well, in my opinion right now only people with a small library
have an advantage. That´s quite bad, I hope there will be a
wifi-option, soon. MC itself (Desktop and MC/iOS) is a great
software, I´m working with it in the 4th year now. But MC2
really needs a fix, I personally think.</p></div>Jenstag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/277194792013-07-11T21:45:29Z2013-07-12T01:17:39ZWhat is the advantage of iCloud sync over wifi<div><p>I think the advantage must be for those that have two mobile
devises. Otherwise, I can't see why iCloud sync was the Holy Grail
of the latest update. I very much wanted the advantage of each
facet being graded and scheduled independently, because that
feature has a significant impact on the effectiveness of the
program. Likewise with the more advanced scheduling algorithm. The
ability to have reversible and non-reversible cards within the same
stack (not possible with the previous OS version) is a very nice
convenience. Mulitple-facets is something I would probably have put
to use. But the iCloud sync issue seems like it took so much effort
to add, for what I don't see as offering an advantage that makes it
worth it. So I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing
here.</p>
<p>At any rate, it is still early in the release, so I'm hoping if
I keep sending the reports when it prompts me to do so, that
eventually some bug can be uncovered and fixed to get this program
working better. I turned off iCloud Sync on the iPod to see if not
having the background syncing going on would help to allow me to
get through my current lesson, but it didn't.</p>
<p>EDIT: After turning the sync back on, although it took a long
time to connect (I had to just leave it in the process and come
back later) and give me the option to proceed with keeping the data
on the ipod (my choice) or the data on the cloud, it finally was a
successful sync. This fixed whatever was causing the program to
shut down every four minutes. At least for now. I suspect the fact
that the sync runs in the background that one could unknowingly
shut the program down or do the wrong thing while a sync is in
progress and corrupt it, and that maybe that's what happened that
caused it to keep crashing. But that is total uneducated
speculation. :) The other is that something is tying up my memory
(some kind of cache filling up?) that a successful cloud sync
resets. I don't know. But if I can keep this thing working by
reloading a sync once a day, I may do it on the hopes that things
improve.</p></div>zeppotag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/277194792013-07-12T07:28:29Z2013-07-12T07:28:29ZWhat is the advantage of iCloud sync over wifi<div><p>The whole world is moving to cloud sync. It was by far the most
requested feature, and had to happen at some point.</p>
<p>The advantages are that you can sync anywhere (including mobile
networks), each device can do its own scheduling, you can keep as
many devices in sync as you like, and once you have done the
initial sync, there is a lot less data to move around.</p>
<p>You are right that it is more demanding. But this is a 1.0, and
will improve pretty fast.</p>
<p>If it is too problematic, I recommend using the old app for now.
We will be improving sync, and possibly offering other options in
future.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/277194792013-07-12T21:42:05Z2013-07-12T21:42:05ZWhat is the advantage of iCloud sync over wifi<div><p>I guess if someone studies on their mac at home, but then wanted
to study later away from home on their iPhone, it would be a
problem if they forgot to sync the phone to the mac before they
left. But I don't see remembering as a big deal compared to the
downside of not being able to use the app at all due to it not
working. But if improvements do happen fast as you say, then I
won't worry about it.</p>
<p>The fix I mentioned above was temporary. I was able to flip
through a couple of hundred cards and then it started shutting down
again. Before it shuts down, a card or two will appear without
loading any text on them-- just blank. It will sometimes prompt as
to whether to send a report or not, and I've been sending them.
Hopefully others have as well and you may be able to piece together
a solution. Maybe there's a programming bug that causing the memory
resources to get eaten up and it can be fixed soon. I'll try
turning the sync off and on again and see if that trick clears
things up again and lets me study a couple hundred more.</p></div>zeppotag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/277194792013-07-13T13:14:21Z2013-07-13T13:14:21ZWhat is the advantage of iCloud sync over wifi<div><p>In general, I don't recommend continually switching the iCloud
on and off. It results in more data transfer, and possible issues
with overloading iCloud.</p>
<p>If you need to do a complete reset, you can use it to replace
all data in the cloud, but otherwise I think it is better to leave
alone.</p>
<p>We will see if there are any possible slideshow memory issues.
It could also be memory use in the background due to iCloud sync.
Not using the sync may help.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormack